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If youre a closeted person somewhere out there thinking "I want to transition but it would be less progressive/unique/countercultural for me to be that gender instead of this one" please know that you are a real person not a character in a narrative and cant live your life based on what is good media representation. You are real you can only be yourself and theres no moral weight to any identity over another

pawberri

Liberal transphobes enjoy positioning trans identities as regressive compared to cis queerness or like non-transitioning transness or anything else they can leverage to make transphobia look progressive and I think its easy to absorb that message subconciously. But in real life we just are what we are and no ranking of validity can change the fact that you have an identity that is NOT chosen and is just your unchangeable truth. Not only should you not have to live a life dictated by what is most countercultural to identify as or whatever but also: being trans is extremely countercultural and feminist and leftist to begin with and theyre only trying to convince you otherwise bc theyre bigots

pawberri

"Why cant you be a feminine man society hates feminine men 🥺" and "all the butch lesbians are becoming men we need u 🥺" = stay in the closet for the noble purpose of being an abstract representation point in my new york times opinion column. You wont actually be a gnc cis person youll be a closeted trans person who uses the wrong words but I need you to do that because i hate you

jpinesart

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.

sad-gay-loser

Inside you there are two wolves…

carcinogenic-siren

Acting like society has at all addressed or even contemplated transmisogyny for even a moment is a fucking joke.

Just continuing the hate train on this poor girl, which if she was talking about how misogynistic classic horror movies are against cissexual women, everyone would be lauding her for having the guts to stand up and say something.

“I’m not trying to be mean” No, but you are being transmisogynistic. Because she (op) *is* right, these conversations are not had outside of transfem spaces, and trans women everywhere have to sit in silence while y’all praise sotl, rhps, whatever the fuck. You know for a fact you are not discussing how these classic horror films harm trans women. For fucks sake, you probably don’t even know what transmisogyny is.

No one outside of trans women is ready to have a conversation about transmisogyny.

dasloddl

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

wickedsick

being shiver is suffering

(Post inspired by @demilypyro's splatoon raiders streams)

demilypyro

the politics of ghost in the shell are interesting. for such a foundational cyberpunk work it's incredibly notable that the main characters are... the police? and they routinely break protocol and apply unnecessary force. they even skim off the top more than once. and the series seems aware that them having all that power isn't exactly a good thing, but it also doesn't really seem interested in interrogating the topic. here and there we get a throwaway line about "this is what it takes to get the job done" in that very tough guy ends justify the means kinda way. the police need all this power because it's The Future and the bad guys also have a lot of power, end of conversation. the rookie character is framed as naive for even questioning this. the possibility of The Good Guys becoming The Bad Guys is sort of explored but it's treated with a "we'll handle it when it happens" kind of attitude; as long as they're the good guys, it's fine if they break some rules. the plight of the common people is largely ignored, and our protagonists actually generally treat them with cold detachment. the first story very purposely shows that Motoko isn't there to save any of the people stuck in the factory, she was just there to get a job done, and then she leaves them to fend for themselves. because Motoko isn't a good person. she's cool and funny and hot, but she's also a high ranking law enforcement officer who treats human life as largely disposable. she's fun to root for, but she's also singularly unsympathetic if you think about her place in the world for even a minute. and that moral greyness serves to make her a very compelling character... but sometimes you get the feeling the writer doesn't really understand that it makes her morally grey at all.

depsidase

dollhair

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

sluttynurse

diabloii

opha

this is a statement from victryena, a trans woman of color who was mass harassed by (mostly) white trans women on twitter for reposting a protest sign saying "white trans people are oppressors too". the sign itself was a response to septembersister, a black trans woman and refugee in canada, having her speech suppressed at the vancouver transgender march protest. here is her full speech, made later. i am platforming them because they need to be heard, and the content of their words is urgently relevant to the current state of transfeminist discourse.

fantahsii

Alejandra Bogue por Joel-Peter Witkin

cursmudgeon

Same model, same photographer, 26 years later.

chroniccoolness

racist white canadians and europeans want you to believe the slave trade worked like this

it did not. it is public knowledge the slave trade worked like this

and in fighting antiblackness within canada and europe it is so so so important to acknowledge these places's participation in and benefit from the transantlantic slave trade. Slavery is not just the US's dirty past, it is a triangular industry lasting centuries that white people in the united states, canada, and europe benefitted from and continue to benefit from to this day. Slavery was good for white canadians and white europeans. They liked it. they encouraged it. they had slaves, they profited from the slave trade, and they used products grown from US slave labour in every day life. The slavery of Black people would not have been possible on the sheer scale at which it happened if it were not for active, consistent participation from europe and canada.

demilypyro

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW